Carapoia mirim (lat.) - a species of hayfields of the genus Carapoia ( lat. Pholcidae ). Distributed in South America ( Brazil , Espírito Santo state). The smallest representative of a kind and its specific name C. mirim in the Brazilian Portuguese language means “small” (mirim) [1] .
| Carapoia mirim |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Araneomorphic Spiders |
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Carapoia mirim Huber, 2016 |
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Small haymaking spiders, body length of about 2 mm, carapax width of 0.9 mm. Chelicera males without modified hairs. Abdomen is gray. The main coloration of the cephalothorax and legs is buffy yellow and brown. Have 8 eyes. The legs are very long. The abdomen is short-cylindrical and pointed in arachnoid warts. They live near the ground, under leaves and branches, along with other species, such as Carapoia capixaba (on the Sooretama site) [1] .
It differs from similar species in the form of procursus (the distal process of the cymbium , modification of the last pedipalp segment), the structure of the male chelicera and the structure of the female genitalia. The species was first described in 2016 during a study of the diversity and endemicity of spiders of South America, conducted by German arachnologist Bernhard Huber ( Bernhard Huber , Alexander Koenig Research Museum of Zoology , Bonn , Germany ) [1] .